1. A play last year TERRA HAUTE dealt with Gore Vidal's supposedly sexual infatuation with Tim McVeigh (though Vidal lambasted it and the play was pure b.s.).

2. That Capote movie had him infatuated with the Klutter family killer.

3. The Laramie Project turns 10 this year and has a new epilogue based on the gay writer's extensive interviews with Matthew Shepard's killer. There was a story on yahoo yesterday about it where the writer talks about his feelings for the killer.

Steve,What brought upon this interest? It's funny because I happened to be thinking about such women yesterday and it is not something I think about often.

I thought of this subject upon learning that an influential propaganda movie, "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" had been directed by a woman. It seemed to me to be the ultimate prison love letter. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/28/polanski_arrest/index.html

Whiskey,It seems to me to be a Hollywood vs. everyone else divide; I don't detect a gender divide.

From here on out I hope Whoopi will be known as "Whoopi Rape Rape". She "clarified" her comments, but she seems truly ignorant of the victim repeatedly saying no, faking asthma, etc. As if that matters much anyway. OT, but my older sister used to teach classes to health care workers and other professionals about child abusers. The modus operandi of all of them is "buttering them up" and "intoxicating them". Physically and mentally induce the child to say, "yes".

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